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Article | 7/06/2005 Take it to the bridge

One of Windows XP's unsung features is its ability to act as a bridge, allowing otherwise unconnectable networks to talk to each other.

Article | 23/05/2005 Backup and imaging: Acronis True Image 8.0

There's lots of backup and imaging utilities out there, but few are as easy to use as this one. Not only can you clone a complete drive, but restoring...

Article | 9/05/2005 Networking: Carry on streaming

All network and no "net play" would make anybody fairly dull. So put any extra LAN bandwidth to good use and share some quality time with your colleag...

Article | 18/03/2005 Easy-does-it database: Alpha Software Alpha Five 6

The latest Alpha Five software adds enhanced scripting functions and a set of tools to simplify the writing of Web-based front-ends for your databases...

Article | 9/03/2005 PDF conversion utility

Hard on the heels on ScanSoft PDF Convertor 2.0 comes a rival. PDF Transformer's brief is identical: to take a PDF document, extract its contents and ...

Article | 17/02/2005 Battening down the hatches

With Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows XP may be more secure than ever, but there are still one or two things you can do to tighten things up a bit.

Article | 4/02/2005 Network protection: Active VirusScan Suite SBE

Small businesses are often vulnerable to viruses and other security problems. Despite this, they seem to be the very organisations that care the lea...

Article | 3/02/2005 PDF conversion/creation tool: PDF Converter 2.0 Professional

DF Converter 2.0 Professional is an amalgam of two ScanSoft PDF tools sold separately: PDF Converter and PDF Create. The former lets you transfer the ...

Article | 13/08/2004 FileMaker Pro 7.0 Preview

FileMaker Pro 7.0 is aimed at the small business and mid-range corporate markets as well as single users or small workgroups. It provides all the feat...

Article | 12/07/2004 Beginner's security suite: Panda Platinum Internet Security

Panda Software’s latest offering gathers together its Platinum antivirus package and adds a firewall, antispam, Web content filtering, and protection ...

Article | 9/07/2004 Internet anonymiser: Steganos Anonym Pro 6.0

Anonym makes your online identity hard to determine by using an array of public proxy servers around the world to route your HTTP data to your PC — an...

Article | 3/07/2004 Optical character recognition software: ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 14.0 Office

Converting your paper documents to data files can reduce the chance of losing them and cut back the time it takes to search for them and or create new...

Article | 6/07/2004 Helpdesk software: Intuit Track-It 6.0

If you ever have to hang on the phone waiting for tech support, just pray that the guy at the other end is using software like Track-It 6.0 to manage ...

Article | 2/06/2004 Wireless Super-G router: WGT624

As Wi-Fi hardware rapidly becomes standardised and prices head floorwards, Wi-Fi vendors are always on the lookout for functions that will differentia...

Article | 19/04/2004 Wireless network PC Card

The Sony Ericsson GC79 PC Card gives mobile notebook users the best of both worlds — fast Internet access when in a Wi-Fi hotspot and not-quite-so-fas...